^ c'mon man, you know the big one was > this < big and the camra broke while you was reelin it in...
... thats always how it is right?
... thats always how it is right?
What the biggest fish you ever caught?
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Biggest - blue shark that was around 5' and 100+ lbs, hard to say exactly because I released the fish.
Plenty of 20-30 lb stripers.
Plenty of 20-30 lb stripers.
13'3" White Sturgeon.. Though I have to admit I handed the pole off a few times.. My arms were long enough to scratch my shins. 11lb LMB, 7lb SMB, 3lb 13oz Black Crappie, 13lb Rainbow Trout, 27 lb Channel Catfish, 37lb Carp < was my favortie catch, caught him on a white crappie jig with 6lb test line.. woot woot.. not bad when you are actually trying for crappie.. heh. Best eating is Surgeon by far
The biggest fish I ever caught was a 46 inch Striped Bass (aka Rock Fish) in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Sturgeon was caught below Swan Falls Dam on the Snake River south of Boise. The Catfish was caught below CJ Strike Dam while trying for sturgeon.. makes for a boring catfish on thos big rods.. The Rainbow, Crappie, and SMB were all caught in Oxbow Reservior about 2 hours NW of Boise, and the LMB was caught in a small pond on the outskirts of Boise. Every one of these fish was caught within 2 hours of my front door. Oh yeah and the Carp was caught this past spring while fishing for crappie on memorial day weekend in Oxbow.. the coolest part was I caught a 20+ lb carp the day before on the same type of jig. heh woot crappie jigging for carp..
3lb 13oz Black Crappie- man thats a huge crappie you eat it or mount it !
you lucky Ba$tAr!) all those types of fish within 2 hours...
you lucky Ba$tAr!) all those types of fish within 2 hours...
The Crappie is a horror story. I was with my family on a weekend trip to Oxbow. This was like 13 years ago now.. and I was getting ready to go in to the military and it was my last trip. I walked down the face of the dam (you could still do that back then) and started casting for smallies. Those are trophy smallmouth waters, catch and release most of the year and a slot limit the rest. Anyway I was having a ball catching 2-4 lb smallies all day.. infact it got to the point I just sat down and didn't fish for awhile.. my poor thumb was tore up from bass lips. Anyway when it started to get close to the time to quit i decided to try casting into a much deeper hole with a bit of an eddy in it. I was using 3 inch watermellon tubes with 1/4oz lead heads.. anyway i let it sink till i figured it had to have hit bottom cause the current made it hard to tell and started a very fast and long jerk retrieve.. boom.. fish on, and man did it fight.. i thought i had a state record smallie. Anyway, I got it to shore and about fell in when I saw it was a crappie.. I'm sure you could hear my whoops all the way back at camp about 3/4's of a mile down river.. anyway I threw him on the stringer and made a mad dash to hit the same hole.. boom.. another.. boom another.. I caught 5 in a row then nothing.. my step dad was in a boat just about 100 yrds from me and came over to see what I was fussing about. He saw one of the fish I caught and yelled it was the biggest he had ever seen. Now coming from him this got my blood racing, he was the best fisherman I knew. Anyway, he picked me up in the boat and we went back down river (so much easier than climbing back up the dam). When we got to camp we measured and weighed them. The biggest was 17 3/4", the smalled just a shade over 15'. We had a digital scale and the big one read out a 3.13.. It read lbs and oz's not the percentage. Anyway, I told him I wanted to take it to the Gateway Store to have them weighed since they had a regulation scale and to turn it in for a state record. He said we'd do it in the morning. The next morning I had to haul the boat so he said he'd stop on the way and have them officially weighed and measured.. He never did, they took them home, snapped a few photos and then ate them. It would have been a record, thought it would have been beat 3 years ago by a 12 yr old kid.. but yeah.. oxbow is an anglers heaven..
^ man that is an awesome story to tell the grand kids...
my friend back in cali just sent me pics and said he caut over 60 crappies in 4 hours !!!
but none over 3 lbs.
my friend back in cali just sent me pics and said he caut over 60 crappies in 4 hours !!!
but none over 3 lbs.
